Artist: After Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn (1606-1669)
Title: The Flight into Egypt: A Night Piece
Medium: Antique hand pulled copper plate etching on laid paper after the original by master etcher Amand Durand (1831 – 1905).
Year: c.1880 (This print is from the 1800’s it is NOT a modern print.)
Signature: Signed in the plate
Reference: Bartsch 53, Lugt. 2934
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 15 x 16 inches
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
The Flight into Egypt: a night piece; the Virgin seated on a donkey holding the Christ Child, while St Joseph leads the way towards the left while holding a lantern.
Rembrandt van Rijn was a Dutch Baroque painter and printmaker, one of the greatest storytellers in the history of art, possessing an exceptional ability to render people in their various moods and dramatic guises. Rembrandt is also known as a painter of light and shade and as an artist who favored an uncompromising realism that would lead some critics to claim that he preferred ugliness to beauty.